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Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020

posted by martyb on Wednesday March 11 2020, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-do-YOU-think dept.

DannyB wrote in with a submission which became:

Ilya Dudkin at Skywell Software has a story

Top 7 Dying Programming Languages to Avoid Studying in 2019 –2020.

Each language gets a paragraph's treatment as to why he thinks these languages are dead or dying. Those languages are:

  • Visual Basic
  • Objective-C
  • Perl
  • COBOL
  • CoffeeScript
  • Scala
  • Lisp

Do you agree with his assessment? Are there any other language(s) you would add to the list?

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:39AM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday March 12 2020, @04:39AM (#970100) Homepage Journal

    That's all fine and good but we were talking origin stories and the P in PCRE don't stand for Python.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:05PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:05PM (#970202)

    If you're going to get persnickety about origins, perl didn't invent regular expressions either. It took its inspiration from the existing unix tools such as sed and awk.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:02PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:02PM (#970240) Journal

    I think the real P in PCRE deserves full credit for its contributions to field of computer science.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:27PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 12 2020, @03:27PM (#970253)

      I think you need to expand on what those contributions are.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday March 13 2020, @11:56AM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Friday March 13 2020, @11:56AM (#970644) Homepage Journal

        For starters, when it was the go-to language for so many things, it absolutely separated the wheat from the chaff in regards to programmers. It was dead easy to spot dipshit noobs who you needed to either teach or fire before they fucked things up.

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